Bengalla - Maintenance Planner

Bengalla Mining Company (a member of New Hope Group) is a joint venture with a strong track record of achievement. Our focus is on maintaining strong safety, productivity, and profitability results. We have a very collaborative team culture and a highly professional and rewarding work environment. Operational since 1999, Bengalla is in Muswellbrook in the Hunter Valley, and supplies international markets with approximately 13 Mtpa.

Bengalla is an open cut coal mine offering a residential lifestyle. The development consent for the operation provides the ability to mine through to 2039. We pride ourselves on the professionalism with which we pursue our goals and our strong links into our community.

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking an experienced Maintenance Planner/Scheduler to join the Maintenance team. The Bengalla Maintenance Team is a multi-discipline team that is responsible for the planning and execution of preventative and breakdown maintenance of all Heavy Mining Equipment within the Pit.

Working closely with the broader Maintenance team, the Maintenance Planner plays a pivotal role in maintaining equipment reliability and availability by ensuring that weekly maintenance schedules and fully planned work packages are delivered to the execution teams to optimise resource availability and align to operational priorities.

Working Monday to Friday dayshift, you will be responsible for:

- Collecting and processing all maintenance and equipment related data. Tracking, reporting and providing recommendations to improve equipment reliability, uptime, and cost, to the reliability engineering department
- Establishing maintenance plans for the safe and efficient execution of work
- Ensuring all correct work instructions, parts, services, labour, skills, tools, and equipment are identified for planned jobs
- Plan, facilitate shutdown meetings, component track and review shutdowns for all HME within your Planner group
- Facilitate innovative maintenance improvement and defect elimination projects to continually improve the assets
- Work closely with site OEM representatives to identify reliability improvement opportunities
- Updating and administering Pulse configurations to support the Work Management process

Qualifications and experience

Along with your extensive knowledge and experience in maintenance planning, you will be a self-motivated leader who will take responsibility for the planning for a fleet of machines and looking to make a difference. Exhibiting yourself as a clear and innovative thinker, you will have prior knowledge of strategic maintenance to provide recommendations and facilitate continuous improvement projects to manage the equipment life cycle and eliminate unscheduled downtime.

To be successful in this role, you will have the following qualifications and experience:

- Relevant tertiary or trade qualifications in a Mechanical/Electrical field or an Engineering background.
- A good understanding of the technical aspects related to Mechanical/Electrical systems in heavy mobile equipment
- Effective use and experience with CMMS
- Effective written and verbal communication
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in a Maintenance Planner role in the Mining Industry (desirable)
- High computer literacy with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Project, Excel, and Word
- Confidence and Competence collaborating with Leadership & Management to ensure Safety, Production and Compliance outcomes are met
- Demonstrated understanding of work management process
- Negotiation and facilitation skills
- Understanding of Maintenance budgetary processes

What we offer

Bengalla values its people and their contribution to the operation. Our well-established employee benefits program offers choice and flexibility to enhance the lifestyle and wellbeing of our team. With benefits including subsidised health insurance, salary packaging, self-education assistance and gym memberships we make the health, safety, and well-being of our people our absolute priority.

This is a great opportunity to join an organisation that is action-orientated and where you are empowered to make decisions and drive change.

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